Randa Clay delivers the goods
Randa Clay, an excellent designer, is also an apparently infinite source of freebies, and useful advice. A few of her recent offerings: Randa’s 10 favorite free fonts The Ultimate Premium Theme (I’m not telling – and it’s a complicated answer, anyway) If you need some inspiration – check out Randa’s portfolio RandaClay.com
Paddy Donnelly at Smashing Magazine: the death of the (boring) blog post?
Paddy Donnelly has a brilliant post at Smashing Magazine – a sort of Scott McCloud-like ((Wikipedia entry; Scott McCloud.com. )) tour de force about how layouts look. So I think Donnelly’s The Death of The Boring Blog Post? is as close to a “must-read” as is possible. For my direct purposes – I started blogging [...]
Jennifer Kyrnin: excellent web design resources at About.com
I’ve been experimenting with html editors – largely to get a handle on some layout issues while keeping the learning curve nice and shallow – and in doing so discovered Jennifer Kyrnin, who is the author of a number of excellent articles at About.com. Here’s her list of The 10 Best Free Web Editors for [...]
AskTheCSSGuy: meta-meta-meta lists, plus funnier headlines than ours
The CSS Guy – of askthecssguy.com is clever, funny, and when he lists lists – he lists some cool things- check out 59+ Amazing (and jaw-dropping) web design-related lists with titles that will rip your face off, blow your mama’s mind, and make you cry under the crushing pain of their inspiration. Check out his [...]
Blogussion: how to use Twitter to increase traffic; plus some digression (no extra charge)
At Last, a Simple Guide to Mastering Twitter from the fine folks at Blogussion. But also – check out this excellent graphic: That article – about their redesign is by Alex, who is also the proprietor of Asnio – a blog about entrepreneurship. A blog about entrepreneurship by a teenager – I anticipated that it [...]
Smiley Cat Web Design – pull-quotes gallery
Christian Watson, of Smiley Cat Web Design, which has a subsidiary, Elements of Design (“an alternative web desig showcase”). Check out this beautiful gallery of pull-quotes – some of which I think I’d characterize as “call-outs,” which, in my mental taxonomy, are properly a subset of pull-quotes. Here’s one that I liked a lot, [singlepic [...]
An argument against drop-down menus
Learning the World is a blog by Martin Kliehm, a web developer in Germany who also specializes in accessibility. In “Accessible Drop-Down Menus,” Kliehm lucidly explains what’s problematic about them, and just as clearly lays out a number of means by which the barriers can be lowered, if not eliminated. Other posts worth knowing about: [...]
When a map will help your post make sense
Sometimes a map will help your post make sense; on other occasions, it’s just an opportunity to add a beautiful image to a post. A great source for unusual and beautiful maps is Mappery.I just used a map of Manhattan in this post, NYC – free crosstown bus plan may reflect understanding of transportation system [...]
Using dummy text as testing tool
Alyssa Gregory, the autueur ((Pretentious, wasn’t it? But by me, not Ms.Gregory. Just another demonstration of Simon Elvery’s WP Footnotes plugin.)) of Small Business Idea Generator blog.has a post 7 Dummy Text Generators: Which Is Your Favorite? on Sitepoint. Five I’ve known and used; two were new. As I’ve been tinkering with the design of [...]
HTML-Ipsum – preformatted dummy copy
HTML Ipsum Presents – is a website, as described by Smashing Magazine, “A useful little website created by Chris Coyier. It provides you with the standard Latin text already in HTML tags. Clicking on any of the blocks automatically copies the text to your clipboard!” Here’s one sample copied and pasted, in one click, from [...]
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